Synopses & Reviews
Using the Media: Fact, Fiction, and Opinion presents middle school students with clues to discriminating among fact, fiction, and opinion in media messages. The readings challenge students intellectually, and the small-group activities help them make the connections between what they've learned from the readings and the media messages they encounter every day
Synopsis
Enhance students' ability to distinguish between fact, fiction, and opinion in the media. Engaging activities sharpen students' critical thinking skills as they decide whether statements made in the context of various readings found in the media are factual or merely opinions. Media sources include newspapers, television, and the Internet. Reproducible.
Synopsis
Using the Media: Fact, Fiction, and Opinion presents middle school students with clues to discriminating among fact, fiction, and opinion in media messages.